How the news changes the way we think and behave
The article “How the news changes the way we think and behave” talks in length about how the news negatively affects the people who watch it for a long period of time. The article lists some traumatic past events like the Boston bombing to show this. In one study they cited, people who watched the news for six or more hours a day, were more mentally hurt then people who were actually attending the place the bombing happened. This wasn’t the only way we are affected by news. A nation's whole economy was affected by it. In this example the news made the economic situation sound a lot worse than it was. This led to many people not wanting to invest and negatively hurt the economy. I agree with the article that news changes the way people think and behave. A lot of the examples the articles give to prove that the news affects how we think seem very accurate, and I even have some personal experience with one of them. One of the examples that I have personal experience with is w/ social media. I use social media a lot throughout the day and similar to the article I began recognizing my mental health wasn’t as good while on social media. Not only do I have personal experience with one of the examples but I can tell my parents and other people too. This example is w/ the covid-19 pandemic where a lot of people have been very negatively affected by it. Being stuck in their house all day has made many people depressed, and with most news talking very negatively everyday about the future of the world, it has only amplified this. Overall I definitely agree with the article’s point of view about how the news affects how people think and behave.
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AuthorAndrew S Burke, P7 AICE Media Studies, Cambridge student Archives
April 2021
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